he laughed, not at ronald reagan, clearly, with ronald reagan. a mistake, walter. and then with the camera on ronald reagan, he took up a glass of water and took a sip and put it down with a sense of satisfaction on his face. at that moment, it was game 7, match. it was over. we saw this so many times where ronald reagan would win the day. this is the last thing i would say. but neither of us has gone longer than bill clinton when he said, "one more thing in conclusion." [laughter] he would ignore as when we would ask him questions. sometimes it did not work, but usually it would. he asked the president in the fall of 1982 when ronald reagan's gallup approval rating was 37% -- barack obama is 44% today and we wonder if he is going to be reelected. at that point, white house correspondents are really tough. when they are down, you kick them. he called on me and i said, mr. president, tonight you have blamed the continuing recession on congress and the mistakes of the past. doesn't any of the blame belongs to you? yes, he said, for many years i was a democrat. [laugh

ronald reagan was a wonderful president. he has really helped the republican party and meet in where i am going in the future. i usually do not prepare a speech but speak from my heart. i can go on and on about what is going wrong in washington. there are several apartments we want to get rid of. energy. [applause] there are so many departments in washington and the federal government that we have to disband. my personal background, i have been doing this for 30 years. and applying cost savings. i have travelled throughout all of iowa to bring back revenue to the bottom line. most of the rural hospitals in the state of iowa earn one of 3% profit margin. i save $330 they do not have to lose in income. i know what it takes to run a business. i know what it takes to get the job done. if i had the authority to go to washington, within one year i could erase $1 trillion in spending. i know where to look. i know how to find it. they talk about fraud constantly. mainly one congressman senator that is talking about eliminating fraud

ronald reagan did it. that was the beginning of a reagan ending up as president was that speech which was written for barry goldwater. >> it also led another -- a number of california executives to coach according to governor in 1966. >> he had given similar speeches the early '60s. the people who had been in charge of basically handling the money for. cold water's television account for so fed up with the terrible commercials, that basically said if you let us spend it the whole way, will spend it the way we want to. we are going to basically sequester this money. they played hard ball. that is how they got ronald reagan on the air. after he gave that speech, telegrams poured into the campaign. money poured into the campaign. people started talking about ronald reagan as a gubernatorial possibility. david said it was the best political debut he had ever heard of since the speech by william jennings bryant. >> the relationship, was it a close relationship or was it more of an acquaintance? >> ronald reagan

that is one of the keys to ronald reagan. he would have the chance with the public many times going over the heads of congress and the news media going directly for the people and he was very effective in mobilizing the people behind these ideas and that is why he was able to assume many of them are not in agreement with his ideas, but they understood the people who were behind the president and what he wanted to do 1987. >> thank you for being here today. one component -- spank what is your name. i'm from notre dame. given that the time the unprecedented budget deficits, you know, and decrease in taxes and increasing the defense spending to you think that ronald reagan should be labeled a fiscal conservative? >> should he be labeled a fiscal conservative given the deficit -- >> i mean the deficit for themselves. 3% was unprecedented at the time i think postwar time. >> 3% was not unprecedented by any means to lead i certainly think he was a fiscal conservative. again, you know, it is all in perspective. the budget deficit wa

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he laughed, not at ronald reagan, clearly, with ronald reagan. a mistake, walter. and then with the camera on ronald reagan, he took up a glass of water and took a sip and put it down with a sense of satisfaction on his face. at that moment, it was game 7, match. it was over. we saw this so many times where ronald reagan would win the day. this is the last thing i would say. but neither of us has gone longer than bill clinton when he said, "one more thing in conclusion." [laughter] he would ignore as when we would ask him questions. sometimes it did not work, but usually it would. he asked the president in the fall of 1982 when ronald reagan's gallup approval rating was 37% -- barack obama is 44% today and we wonder if he is going to be reelected. at that point, white house correspondents are really tough. when they are down, you kick them. he called on me and i said, mr. president, tonight you have blamed the continuing recession on congress and the mistakes of the past. doesn't any of the blame belongs to you? yes, he said, for many years i was a democrat. [laugh

i think that was one of the keys to ronald reagan. he would have these chats with the public many times going over the heads of congress, going over the head of the news media directly to the people through the medium of television, and he was very effective in mobilizing the people behind this idea, and that is why he was able to persuade congress that many of whom or not necessarily an agreement with his ideas, but they understood the people were behind the president and what he wanted to do in the 1980's. >> yes, next. >> thank you for being here today. one component -- >> can you tell us your name. >> i'm a student from motor game. >> given the legacy one component that is often seen today is that a fiscal conservative. given at the time of unprecedented budget deficits and a decrease in taxes and increasing defense spending, do you think that ronald reagan should be labeled a fiscal conservative? >> should he be labeled a fiscal conservative given deficit -- >> i mean the deficit for themselves, 3% was in president of the time i

it was at precisely this moment that ronald reagan entered their lives and entered the picture. as controller militancy was growing in the late '70s, as their determination to improve their situation grew, then came the election between jimmy carter and ronald reagan. by this point the controllers were so disaffected with the carter administration's faa that they didn't consider really endorsing carter's re-election. they thought it would be more of the same. they began negotiating with reagan's campaign, and ultimately, arrived at an agreement. they would endorse reagan, and in return reagan would promise to help them if he was elected president. the book goes deeply into this, and i'll be happy to answer more questions about it if you have them, but i'll just simply say that that bargain created expectations on each side that were unrealistic and that couldn't be fulfilled, and each side misread the other. the reagan people believed that they were bringing in to the republican fold reagan democrats. most patco members were democrats, though they endorsed reagan, but they were

actors that get residuals have one person on to thank for that, ronald reagan. he had great pride in it. he loved to talk about his years in the film industry. i remember hearing bill clinton one time talking, and i won't quote them exactly, but it is an acting job in some ways. the notion of communicating to people what the role of the presidency is is not an unimportant point he made. >> people have said to me the thing about bill clinton is he can both capture what the problem is and then speak in a very high level about what the solution would be. now, how you evaluate that depends on on where you sit politically, of course. do you think this is a liability actually for president obama? do you think he lacks that same ability it to capture all that? >> i think he does. he's communicating different. i should have added bill clinton. i said roosevelt and kennedy and reagan. bill clinton qualifies as well. we stee it today. it's wonderfully persuasive and engaging and real to president. president obama, we're in it in the moment and because we're so preoccupied

i mean, there is one thing we associate with ronald reagan and i think it is accurate. he thought government was too big and he thought there were too many federal workers, and he believed much more in private-sector of course than he did in government and i think that morale among federal workers plummeted in the early 1980s. you know one of the best that i have read is haynes johnson's the journalists book called sleepwalking through history, the history of the reagan years. he talks about the impact of reagan's seeming when the neglect of federal workers on the federal workers themselves. i don't think your perception is all that wrong. i would add though one thing, that i think in history we have assumed that reagan was more antiunion than in fact he really was and in part i think that is partly what happened with the patco situation that him in history in that particular way. he thought government was too big but he never did oppose the idea of collective bargaining in government. in fact, you know in this is something many conservatives today would publicly be sur

ronald reagan did it. that was the beginning of a reagan ending up as president was that speech which was written for barry goldwater. >> it also led another -- a number of california executives to coach according to governor in 1966. >> he had given similar speeches the early '60s. the people who had been in charge of basically handling the money for. goldwater's television account were so fed up with the terrible commercials, that basically said if you let us spend it the whole way, will spend it the way we want to. we are going to basically sequester this money. they played hard ball. that is how they got ronald reagan on the air. after he gave that speech, telegrams poured into the campaign. money poured into the campaign. people started talking about ronald reagan as a gubernatorial possibility. david said it was the best political debut he had ever heard of since the speech by william jennings bryant. >> the relationship, was it a close relationship or was it more of an acquaintance? >> ronald reagan

we know ronald reagan isn't running. he's been passed in the debate and he has a demonstrated ability to track liberals into voting for him. >> book tv interviews former president bill clinton about his recent book back to work why we need smarter government for a strong economy. >> president bill clinton in your book back to work you talk about the fact the u.s. should get back in the future business. what do you mean by that? >> i mean we should have the strategy to build a future of share prosperity and shared responsibility is based on a cooperative relationship between the strong private economy and a smart government. i fink this battle we've been asked whether the government is the source of all of our problems and there is no such thing as a bad tax cut or good tax or bad regulation were good regulation has obscured what's really going on out there in the world. we still have a lot of the enormous advantages in america but we've lost ground relative to a lot of other countries and the percentage of the young adul

ronald reagan did it. that was the beginning of a reagan ending up as president was that speech which was written for barry goldwater. >> it also led another -- a number of california executives to coach according to governor in 1966. >> he had given similar speeches the early '60s. the people who had been in charge of basically handling the money for. goldwater's television account were so fed up with the terrible commercials, that basically said if you let us spend it the whole way, will spend it the way we want to. we are going to basically sequester this money. they played hard ball. that is how they got ronald reagan on the air. after he gave that speech, telegrams poured into the campaign. money poured into the campaign. people started talking about ronald reagan as a gubernatorial possibility. david said it was the best political debut he had ever heard of since the speech by william jennings bryant. >> the relationship, was it a close relationship or was it more of an acquaintance? >> ronald reagan

. >>> there is a new statue that will greet travelers at ronald reagan airport. there will be a 9 foot tall iran statute of president ronald reagan at the airport. this stands in front of turmoil a. this is one of several rate in statues being released worldwide in celebrations of 100 years since ronald reagan's birth. >>> a beautiful day to have an outdoor ceremony. >> yes, i'm excited. finally have a nice stretch of lovely weather. the high-pressure is in place. clear, calm, pleasant. >> pleasant. finally. >> there is a caveat coming up and that is friday morning. a beautiful sky conditions. some patchy fair weather clouds. that is all we will see in the next couple of hours. we will see these dissipate because the daytime heat from the sun that causes those clouds to develop. 52 now in martinsburg, radian nacional, 57. -- reagan national, 57. even cooler is great falls montana which is that the freezing point. that is really cold air. not that bad across the country. wyoming is expecting anywhere from six to 14 inches of snow through tomorrow with the next far

before that, i tended to agree with ronald reagan if you'd seen one redwood, you've seen them all. [laughter] the sights and the sound of that buzz saw biting into the bows of this great pipe tree outside our house just awoke something in me, and next thing i know i'm up there in my socks, seven o'clock in the morning hugging the tree preventing its destruction. well, of course, i am -- i did not succeed. the tree actually belonged to the building next door, and they had every right to cut it down, so i had to retreat back into my house and listen to the rest of the direction of that tree -- destruction of that tree feeling just about worse than i've ever felt in my life and astonished at the intensity of my own feelings. wrote an article about it for the new "new york times" and some months later i was talking about the incident about how the great american poet, and he said, you know, i once wrote a poem about the destruction of a tree, the bottom of our driveway, and he said of all the thousands of poems i've written in my life, that was the one that generated the most response.

reagan hired to do it the bill. you know that exactly what was it suggested a crank a doubled military has been massively increased military spending cut taxes on the very wealthy cut taxes on corporations yes he actually is and what do we get triple the national debt and it made it look like things were good for a couple of years but as you and i both know we were living on a credit card i mean you know ronald reagan had to be hard and now it's backwards two trillion dollars was a hell of a lot of money that's largely because of the unintended consequences of the tax revision act of one thousand nine hundred eighty six the fact of the matter is ronald reagan was a visionary but things have changed so what we have to do is cherry pick the ideas that work let's get one area of a little international doubting and then claiming the that the good times that come from the cal backings i mean he was the ultimate keynesian at least at least f.d.r. when he was you know running up a big debt to fight world war two had plans

this is a live look at ronald reagan national airport. the 9 foot tall, 900-pound likeness was funded by the ronald reagan foundation and will stand in front of terminal "a." four lanes t

reagan it's hard to see the bill. you know exactly what was is and has to be cranked up doubled military has been massively increased military spending cut taxes on the very wealthy cut taxes on corporations yes he actually is and what do we get he triple the national debt and it made it look like things were good for a couple of years but as you and i both know we were living on a credit card i mean you know ronald reagan had to wear a hard and that was backwards two trillion dollars was a hell of a lot of money that's largely because of the unintended consequences of the tax revision act of one thousand nine hundred eighty six the fact of the matter is ronald reagan was a visionary but things have changed so what we have to do is cherry pick the ideas that work let's get one area of a loophole in the national debt and then claiming the but the good times that come from a chaotic hainsey i mean he was the ultimate keynesian at least at least f.d.r. when he was running up a big debt to fight world war two had plans do

you see that as well. >> ronald reagan won the cold war. >> i think ronald reagan played a vital part in winning the cold war. the way that he did it was to ramp up pressure across the board when he took over in 1981 militarily, economically, diplomatically, idealogically. and i think that was one of the factors that forced the soviet union to really rethink its approach under gorbachev, yes. >> did the end of the cold war change republican foreign policy? >> it did. as for all americans, republicans had to decide, you know, where do we go next? what should america's role in the world be? and for republicans especially prior to communism had been such a unifying force during the cold war, it left remins sort of confused and divided. there was the sort of pat buchanan wing, more isolationist in the 1990s, there was the henry kissinger type school of thought, there were american nationalists who believed in military strength but were more skeptical of humanitarian intervention, and i think george w. bush ended those disagreements for a while through the concept of the war on terror. but

that president was ronald reagan. since when do we have republicans voting against ronald reagan's ideas? >> well, there you have it, ron. the president out there building bridges, saying the smart thing for us with so many unemployed out there in the country is to begin working on our public sector, and working on things that are below safety code and need to be fixed. what's your counterargument? >> my counterargument is i'm glad he invoked ronald reagan. he was exactly right. i think what reagan said was exactly right. the truth of the matter is when president obama came into office in 2009, the highway bill needed to be reauthorized. it expired in 2009. that is a six-year multi-year effort to build our roads, bridges, et cetera, so while the president is attacking republicans for refusing to go along with part of his jobs bill, there are democrats and republicans in the congress alike who want a six-year reauthorization bill. we've had this thing punted several extensions, the most recent one will expire in march

his relationship with ronald reagan? >> he was a lifelong friend of ronald reagan. ronald reagan was pretty much the same politics back in those days. he was the head of the actors' union. he was a democrat and he had the same philosophy. ronald reagan changed, but humphrey remained the same. but they did remain friends. >> goldwater? >> they were even better friends. they were giving speeches in iowa on the back of a hay wagon. they district each other apart. -- the district each other apart. later on, someone saw them having dinner together. >> before we talk about kennedy, talk about the united states senate. people recognize the names from history books today. was there by partisanship? did people work across the aisle? >> there was a lot of camaraderie. humphrey was friends with a lot of republicans. it was more cordial and there was more camaraderie than there is now. i am not in the senate now, but they were very close. >> jfk and their relationship? >> in the early years, they voted together on many of the same bills. humphrey helped him with farm legislatio

ronald reagan reluctantly agreed to taxes on businesses and wanted everyone to the table and lo and behold the tax hikes and spending cuts never materialize, it's a sucker punch and probably going to happen again. anything the super committee would create would be a frankenstein deal. two different worlds used and ideologies, whatever they put together is going to be sort after monster and we can be sure we'll see tax hikes and little spending cuts. >> neil: ben stein? >> i think we're going to he see tax hikes, it's baked in the cake and responding to taxes for many, many, many years now and there are going to be tax hikes. >> and don't you think we will be even more irresponsible with spending? >> we're spending irresponsible with both. and we'll be italy, if we don't quickly cut spending. >> the food angle, we could do worse. >> you're right. >> neil: charles? >> i don't disagree, it's a treacherous slippery slope and you know, we saw it before, with ronald reagan and with the first bush presidency and it's, i get worried when i hear the g.o.p. start to talk about this because i think t

that president was ronald reagan. since when do we have republicans voting against ronald reagan's ideas? >> we can't simply wait for congress to do its job. if continue won't act, i will. >> tell them, don't be a grinch. don't vote to raise taxes on working americans during the holidays. congress has a very simple choice next week. do you want to cut taxes for the middle class and those who are trying to get into the middle class or do you want to protect massive tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, many of whom want to actually help. >>> but republicans are more interested in helping the rich. three times in the last three months they've been faced with a choice between creating jobs and protecting millionaires from paying their fair share. every single time they voted with the wealthy. but the president is keeping the pressure on. next week congress is expected to vote on the president's plan to extend the payroll tax cut that would save the average household $1,500, $1,500 to help folks pay the bills and

reagan as i say ronald reagan was clearly the obvious winner here but ninety eight times for the ronald reagan and then war and. i mean this is really more of like a war is i mean we've got the drug war you got the war in afghanistan you got the war in iraq we have the war on morals in america war on poverty long gone but that was said at one hundred one hundred and five times for war. i think we all know what that means right early so think you know which one i was drinking for all right so basically what happened is a little drunk but that's that's all the coverage we got time for tonight we're going to take a break. broadcasting live right. the heart of moscow this is our right to have you with us let's take a look at the top editor. palestine it gets a seat at the u.n. cultural agency for the first time in a move widely seen as a strong show of support for the nations a bid for recognition unesco voted overwhelmingly in favor of the move but will pay a hefty price as washington cut its funding of the organization in protest and us is against the recognition of palestine outside of p

that president was ronald reagan. since when do we have republicans voting against ronald reagan's ideas? >> well, there you have it, ron. the president out there building bridges, saying the smart thing for us with so many unemployed out there in the country is to begin working on our public sector an working on things that are below safety code and need to be fixed. what's your counterargument? >> my counterargument is i'm glad he invoked ronald reagan. he was exactly right. the truth of the matter is when president obama came into office in 2009, the highway bill needed to be reauthorized. it expired in 2009. that is a six-year multi-year effort to build our roads, bridges, et cetera, so while the president is attacking republicans for refusing to go along with part of his jobs bill, there are democrats and republicans in the congress alike who want a six-year reauthorization bill. we've had this thing punted several extensions, the most recent one will expire in march of next year. we need six years so our governo

it was not part of republican doctrine until ronald reagan made it part of republican doctrine. he told america get up. >> sean: they weren't lazy or soft. >> didn't think we're the prob problem. they're looking broad. and he held up the truth and the banner of america. weather china, soviet union. how many stories are in this? you know? things are going to change. we knew change was coming. real change is coming. >> when you make comparisons, what could any g.o.p. candidate glean from the way reagan ran his campaign? ear we know obama can't run on his record. they're going to run really negative campaign. they're going to whoever the g.o.p. is spend a billion dollars doing it. >> unprecedented amounts of money. and you said republicans with. >> there is another similarity. article today pointed out they may avoid white working class. but more can't go to the left. i don't think they can stay on the right. reagan won the right vote. capitolists. they're reagan democrats. key part of the coalition. i think this could be repeated. what i'm looking for is good ideas. we have good i

it captures ronald reagan in motion. on hand today for the unveiling, the current secretary of transportation, ray lahood. and the woman who served as ronald reagan's transportation secretary, elizabeth dole. today reagan was credited with modernizing air traffic controlling and deregulation that kept pricing competitive. but dole says reagan was most concerned with safety across every mode of transportation. >> the safety belt laws going into effect, the air bags, skels the age 21 drinking, those lee at a minimum have produced 360,000 lives saved. >> reporter: this is one of several around the world that are unveiled as part of the year long celebration commemorating 100 years since the birth of our nation's 40th president. from freedom square in the heart of would you today pest to london, statues have been raised, town squares are been renamed and lasting tributes have been created to recognize his role not just as the great communicator, but as the great liberate tore. >> other works can be seen at the u.s. capitol r

. >> ronald reagan. >> ronald reagan. >> ronald reagan. >> fdr and reagan. >> i think there's enough presidents on mt. rushmore. >> the fifth president that belongs on mt. rushmore? he hasn't been president yet. >> reporter: the candidates were much harsher in their criticism of president obama than they were of their fellow republican herman cain, but if cain continues to defy gravity, diane, you can expect that to change in the fewer than two months until the first ballots are cast in the iowa caucus. diane? >> okay, jake. and joining me now is "gma" co-anchor george stephanopoulos. saw you there with mitt romney. he's been so careful in this campaign all along but he took a shot at cain. >> reporter: and i was surprised that he did it. but he's trying to bring cain back down to earth. a little bit. but i think he senses an opportunity here. number one, he's the second choice of most cain voters in the primaries and caucuses. number two, he's looking beyond the primaries to the general election. he's got to appeal to suburban women voters who might not take kind to someone who appe

reagan as they say ronald reagan was clearly obvious winner here but ninety eight times for the ronald reagan and then the war and. i mean this is really more of like a war is the right i mean we got the other drug war you got the war in afghanistan you got the war in iraq we have the war on morals in america for all poverty long gone but that was said one hundred one hundred and five times for war. i think we all know what that means right earlier so think you know which one i was drinking for all right so basically what happened is little rock that's all the coverage we got time for tonight but if you can break. into it only. if you go to bring justice or. i have. to go with my government if you want to know why i think. i would characterize obama as the charismatic. of american exceptionalism. you know the story so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's the part of it and realize that everything you say. charge. because i'm more and less for. the police corruption and. nobody seems to know. every great to face but hardly argument that they're being ov

as you know, the closest comparison might be ronald reagan who had 8.8% unemployment in october much 1983, but unemployment was going down and had been over 9% in september of '83 and most importantly of all. ronald reagan saw nearly 4 million jobs created in 1984, in that election year, and obviously went on to win 49 states, if you listen to ben bernanke this week, he made it very clear, we're going nowhere close even in the optimistic scenario, close to creating 4 million jobs in 2012 and that is the thing that's underlining why it's a difficult reelection by the president. >> and not into the guys as you are i did talk to the white house landscaper the other day, and he was saying the trend, you know, he was saying the trend could be the white house trend. and the unemployment rate when the president took office, but well off the highs and gaining 100 to 200,000 jobs a month and you and i could figure of late that would be at least. it would confirm a pace that's slow, but steady. what do you think. >> that's the case the president is making, heard him in france yesterday wrappin

president ronald reagan shared our conviction in the first inaugural address. it's not my intention to do away with government it's to make it work with us, not over us. stand by our side cannot ride on our back. the government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it to read foster productivity, not stifel let to read the task before us is to reaffirm our conviction in the beliefs and values to unite us and the challenges and opportunities that face us in the victory that surely awaits us. thank you for all you do. god bless you and god bless the united states of america. thank you. [applause] also speaking to americans for prosperity this afternoon in washington republican presidential hopeful herman cain. the former godfather pizza ceo talked about his 9-9-9 tax plan and made statements with the billionaire brothers who founded the group. ♪ >> thank you. >> delighted to be here. love you all. thank you very much. before i get started, i want to know who's teleprompter sort these because i don't need them. [applause] [cheering] maybe they are for so

. >>> former president ronald reagan is now called side the airport that bears his name. a statue was unveiled a new bridge the $900,000 memorial is the first statute in honor of ronald reagan. we'll be right back. ♪ [ jerry ] attention shoppers. your groceries are the size of idaho but the interest rate on your checking is small potatoes. earn more at capital one bank. get new high yield free checking. your interest rate will be 5 times the national average. that's huge. and free atms at any bank. free is good. sign up at capital one bank. what's in your wallet? what is he, a clydesdale. >>> the chill is in the air tonight. moree you ready for sunshine tomorrow? i aim to please. it is saturday night to sunday morning. go to our home page and we have live blog. >> thank you. live blog. >> thank you. everybody knows the best place for a good time is mississippi. and that's only until they visited us in louisiana. which is a distant second to sun. florida. for beautiful vacation, nothing beats alabama. ok, we'll never agree on who's best. but we can all agree on one thing

reagan doing here that ronald reagan ended the people right ronald reagan ended the cold war singlehandedly with a knife between his teeth crawling across the border and killed him all right just like in a john wayne movie but obama didn't do anything ok whatever you say more ok i want to get i want to go i want to go to bill isn't it just to live a day let me go to bill in washington it's in the past you know go ahead. it is simply that in the. precursor to the death of osama bin laden there were weeks of meetings covert meetings which somehow didn't leak out of the white house obama was present at every one of those meetings he knew every detail of that bearing rein to eliminate osama bin laden he was watching all of happened he was very much involved in the planning of this and it was his misson mission the same way the elimination of our locky was very controversial a lot of liberals said the president should have gotten legal opinions was it constitutional to send a drone to another country to eliminate an american citizen he went ahead and you're going to jump in here are you going to

reagan raised you know equalize the need step in both the twenty eight percent. do you do you agree with reagan on that that. capital is should pay the same tax rate as workers. well here what do they say. let me put it very plainly to those wealthy individuals who saved their monies and put it aside for those not so wealthy individuals who saved their money and received capital gains will they still go out and work and there's still subject to their regular income tax but on the monies that have previously been taxed why should they be penalized the way they are why do you want to take what little they have away from them you know there's a lot of seniors who are dependent on these see if the dens and such just to pay their bills just to buy groceries and if you want it they're going to do and you and i both know david david that's very that's that's you know very. dishonest is too strong a word but you and i both know that if somebody is earning fifteen or twenty thousand dollars a year in capital gains that they're going to pay no capital gains tax just as the

reagan raised you know equalize the be set them both at twenty eight percent. do you do you agree with reagan on that that the capitalist should pay the city that straight as workers well. well here what do they say. let me put it very plainly to those wealthy individuals who saved their money isn't put it aside or those not so wealthy individuals who save their money and receive capital gains will they still go out and work and they're still subject to their regular income tax but on the monies that have previously been taxed why should they be penalized the way they are why do you want to take what little they have away from them you know there's a lot of seniors who are dependent on these dividends and such just to pay their bills just to buy groceries and you want it there anyway you and i both know david david that's very that's that's a very. dishonest is too strong a word but you and i both know that if somebody is there any fifteen or twenty thousand dollars a year in capital gains that they're going to pay no capital gains tax just as they would pay no

reagan doing here that ronald reagan ended the team quote right ronald reagan ended the cold war singlehandedly with a knife between his teeth crawling across the border and killed him all right just like in a john wayne movie but it obama didn't do anything ok whatever you say more ok i want to go to i want to go to i want to go to bill isn't it just to live a day let me go to bill in washington in the potomac go ahead. it is simply that in the. precursor to the death of osama bin laden there were weeks of meetings covert meanings which somehow didn't leak out of the white house obama was present in every one of those meetings he knew every detail of that gehring raid to eliminate osama bin laden he was watching mollett happened he was very much involved in the planning of this and it was his misson mission the same way the elimination of our locky was very controversial a lot of liberals said the president should have gotten legal opinions was it constitutional to send a drone to another country to eliminate an american citizen he went ahead and you're going to jump in here are you going with

. - los viajeros que usan el aeropuerto nacional ronald reagan pueden ver una escultura del ex mandatario, estatua de bronce con un costo de $900,000 se develó hoy y fueron pagadas con donantes pagados y la autoridad aeroportuaria metropolitana de washington. el aeropuerto fue nombrado en honor del ex presidente ronald reagan hace 13 años durante la administración del presidente bill clinton. - aumento de otra pausa en las noticias para envolver le damos detalles de por qué algunos bancos no piensan cobrar ciertas cuotas que habían anunciado para el próximo año. volvemos en minutos. 3q >>sulema: los abogados de esta mujer está apelando una decisión de la corte para que amplíen su estancia en un hospital mental, pero sin ser medicados, hasta que llegue el día de su juicio, el están acusado de crear un tiroteo en arizona en donde dio muerte a seis personas además de dejar gravemente herida a una congresista al dispararle en la cabeza. está siendo tratado mentalmente con medicamentos para aclarar su mente y estar en mejor condición para cuando llegue el juicio en su contra. -

if we had a ronald reagan out there we do probably win with ronald reagan. ronald reagan is not available this year. and romney is well-known to the general electorate. we know what his negatives are but we have to keep cycling through the other conservatives to find out what their negatives are. boy, is the white house loving this. >> well, they went through the same thing. this is the primary process. >> yeah. >> and iowa is january 3rd. so the ball gets rolling in less than two months. you know what, we will find some answers to what is going to happen. >> well, he is probably not going to win iowa. he is not campaigning in iowa. we have to look to new hampshire. >> what do you think of newt gingrich's rise in the poll? he had a good run as speaker, he took deficits and turned them in surpluses. and i asked him last night about global warming, personal issues. he gave his answers. what do you think about him? >> you know i'm not a fan, and i think conservatives are worried about mitt romney's flip-flopping and ought to look into the record of newt gingric

ronald reagan, 53% and rising, he won. jimmy carter was 40% and rising. he got a spike in popularity when americans were taken hostage in iran. his rating was back in the 30s after that and lost re-election. nixson was 49%. he won re-election. what do you see there? >> not only is his approval rating closest to jimmy carter, which republicans are good at pointing out, carter was a one-term president. one of the most telling things, you mentioned an episode which greatly affected his re-election chances, the taking of hostages in iran. we have no idea who is going to happen with the euro and european union. >> nothing good. a wonderful saren dipty going on there. >> it will greatly affect the economy here in the united states. it could have a big effect on obama's re-election chances and bring his approval numbers back down again. >> should he say we found the real bin laden? john heilemann, looking at you, you write historical books now like teddy white did. look at the pattern, mid-40s. kind of gaining. it's not fair to say obama is getting better off. h

: ..if ronald reagan were with us today. >> klein: absolutely. and, and, and barack obama would seem a mild liberal. >> smith: right. well, let, let's -- the reagan reference is a good segue into the republicans because in fact we're looking t a republican field now that is attempting to get to the right of one another it seems. >> klein: right. >> smith: even mitt romney who we didn't.necessarily think had. a righh to get to >> klein: right. >> smith: has suddenly reinvented himself yet again as someone who sounds very much like a conservative and is attempting to. >> klein: ah, but i think you're one reinvention behind. >> smith: am i? >> klein: i've detected in the last couple of debates. >> smith: yeah. >> klein: .republican debates, which i think have been fabulous. >> smith: they really have been great debates. >> klein: .by the way. they've been great debates. i have detectedda new, new, newer mitt romney. >> smith: okay. [audience laughter] >> klein: .which, and he is, and he's now moving to be the moderate alternative to rick perry. >> s

so -- >> ronald reagan though -- >> fir of all i would argue, go ahead. >> ronald reagan's top tax rate during his time in office was hovering 50%, when he cut it, then it got cut to 38.5%, so still higher than where we are now. >> that's right, but it was at the time a very dramatic and very deep tax cut which virtually every member of the establishment of both parties was' posed to. one of them even called it voodoo economics. he later on became reagan's vice president. the fact is it worked. my argument is we will have more people working, they will use less medicaid, less food stamps, less unemployment, less welfare, less public housing. they will be paying tax, taking care of their families. >> and how much in terms of cuts. i'd done the math on rick perry's plan at the 20% rate, five percentage points above yours and to hit that, he had a spending cap you could only spend 18.5% of the economy if you were our government. his numbers, i would have had to cut $892 billion from the federal budget in one year, just to hit that. so yours would, according to that math be even more. are y

i borrow ditch from ronald reagan. here is what it is and is -- i borrowed it from ronald reagan. we have to reduce government spending, discretionary and non- discretionary. we have to do it relentlessly. the federal government is spending us into crushing debts, and it must be controlled. we must remove the idea of non- discretionary spending. [applause] there is no such thing as non- discretionary spending. all spending is discretionary. [laughter] it has to be voted by the house of representatives, by the senate, and signed by the president. that applies to medicare, that applies to medicare,